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A visual "mashup" of Chicano muralism at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Sandra de la Loza, founder of the Pocho Research Society of Erased and Invisible History, presents a visual “mashup” of Chicano muralism by sampling obscure and forgotten details in L.A. murals produced in Los Angeles during the Chicano movement of the 1970s. Taking the role of a performative archivist, she extracts, slices, and blows up archival material to create a multi-media installation that provides a constantly shifting glance at Chicano muralism. Through an experimental video documentary, she opens the material and conceptual bounds in which we see and understand the mural by exploring this history in relationship to Los Angeles urbanism, countercultural aesthetics, and art as a social practice. Lightboxes and a video installation further explore aesthetic strategies utilized during this era and link this history to contem-